US Patent Issued to Vivolta on July 21 for "Focussed charge electrospinning spinneret" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,951, issued on July 21, was assigned to Vivolta B.V. (Waalre, Netherlands).

"Focussed charge electrospinning spinneret" was invented by Marc Simonet (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Paul Johannes Franciscus Maria Janssen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Ramon Hubertus Mathijs Solberg (Munstergeleen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nozzle for an electrospinning spinneret, the nozzle including a material transporting channel having a wall that has an end surface for forming a droplet, and an electrode extending through the material transporting channel at least up to the end surface of the wall."

The patent was filed on April 30, 20...